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He is the author of a textbook, Introduction
to Physical Metallurgy, and co-author
of the two-volume Handbook of Chemical
Microscopy. In his special field of interest,
the microscopical properties and behavior
of chemicals, construction materials, and
manufactured products, he has published
numerous papers in professional journals.
Mason was a founder and the first chairman
of the division of analytical and microchemistry
in the American Chemical Society,
and is a former chairman of the
educational committee of the American Society
of Metals.
The chemistry department has also gained
an emeritus professor in Albert W. Laubengayer
'21, PhD '26, who has been a member
of the faculty since 1928.
He is the author of a textbook, General
Chemistry, and a Laboratory Manual and
Problems in Introductory Chemistry. In addition,
he has published over 60 articles in
the field of inorganic chemistry, including
reports of his discovery of a method for
producing single crystals of the element
boron. Working with H. C. Mattraw of the
General Electric Co., he discovered a new
family of compounds derived from a chemical
union of boron and certain organic substances.
Laubengayer has also done extensive consulting
work with industry, and from 1943
to 1945 he was a consultant for the Manhattan
Project which developed the first
atomic bomb.
Dr. Irving S. Wright '23, MD '26, clinical
professor of medicine at the Medical College,
was installed as president of the 13,000-
member American College of Physicians
April 21. Dr. Wright, a former university
trustee, was head of the subcommittee on
heart disease of the President's Commission
on Heart Disease, Cancer, and Stroke.
Professor Harold A. Scheraga, Todd professor
and chairman of the department of
chemistry, has been
elected a member of
the National Academy
of Sciences.
Membership in the
NAS is considered to
be one of the highest
honors that can be
accorded to an American
scientist or engineer.
Up to 42
members may be elected each year. There
are 745 members currently. The National
Academy of Sciences is a private organization
of scientists and engineers dedicated to
the furtherance of science and its use for
the general welfare. It was established in
1863 by a Congressional Act of Incorporation
signed by Abraham Lincoln which calls
upon the Academy to act as an official adviser
to the Federal Government, upon request,
in any matter of science or technology.
This provision accounts for the close
ties that have always existed between the
Academy and the Government, although the
Academy is not a governmental agency.
Professor John H. Sherry, hotel law,
School of Hotel Administration, is serving
for the eleventh consecutive year as chairman
of the hotels division in The Legal Aid
Society's current campaign for funds. Mr.
Sherry is counsel to many of New York's
leading hotels, legal editor of Hotel World
Review, and author of Handbook of New
York Hotel and Restaurant Laws.
Professor William F. Rochow, PhD '54,
plant pathology, was awarded the U.S. Department
of Agriculture's Superior Service
Award at ceremonies held on May 17 in
Washington, D.C. Secretary of Agriculture
Orville L. Freeman, in making the award,
noted that Rochow's research on the barley
yellow dwarf virus has resulted in our knowing
more about this virus than any other
virus persistently transmitted by aphids. The
barley yellow dwarf virus is a world-wide
problem of barley, oats, wheat, and many
grasses.
Rochow came to the university in 1955
from the University of California at Berkeley.
He had conducted research there on
chemical and biological properties of plant
viruses.
Four new department chairmen have been
named in the College of Arts and Sciences.
The four are Prof. Ephim G. Fogle, English;
Prof. Jean Parrish, Romance studies; Prof.
Alex Rosenberg, mathematics; and Prof.
Martie W. Young, history of art. Mrs. Parrish
is the first woman to head a Cornell Arts
and Sciences department.
Stanislaw Czamaπski has been appointed
to the faculty of the department of city &
regional planning in the College of Architecture.
Czamanski, now an assistant professor
of regional science at the University
of Pennsylvania, will assume his new position
next September.
A graduate of the College of Foreign
Trade and the Institute of Textile Technology
in Vienna, Czamanski received his
master's degree from the University of
Geneva in 1941. After World War II, he
held various positions as a planning official
and consultant in Lodz, one of the largest
cities in Poland. In 1958, Czamanski joined
the ATA Textile Co., Ltd., in Haifa, Israel,
as an economist and head of the firm's
planning department. He came to the US
in 1961 to study for his doctoral degree at
the University of Pennsylvania after receiving
a Harrison Fellowship. He received the
degree in 1963.
Lester F. Eastman '52, PhD '57, has been
promoted to professor of electrical engineering
in the College of Engineering. His special
field is microwave electronics and applied
electrophysics.
Dr. Stephen B. Hitchner, a research leader
at Abbott Laboratories in Chicago, will become
professor and chairman of the department
of avian diseases at the Veterinary College
on July 1. At Abbott, he is a group
leader in animal disease research.
Dr. Hitchner has also been a research
veterinarian with American Scientific Laboratories,
and has been a faculty member at
the University of Massachusetts and at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute. Much of his work
has been in poultry diseases, including the
development of the Bl vaccine against Newcastle
disease, a respiratory virus disease in
poultry. The vaccine is now prepared commercially
from the Hitchner strain of virus.
He received his DVM degree from the
University of Pennsylvania and his BS degree
from Rutgers University.
David J. Allee '53 has been appointed
associate director of the university's Water
Resources Center. Allee, an assistant professor
of resource economics in the College of
Agriculture, held a similar teaching position
at the University of California before
coming here.
He will continue as coordinator of the
water resources activities in the College of
Agriculture. Allee also is director of a federally
supported research project within the
Water Resources Center concerned with
water supply and demand problems in the
northeastern states.
Richard Arnold, MS '59, of the U of
Guelph, Guelph, Ont., Canada, has been
appointed associate professor of soil science.
He earned his BS degree in 1952 and
his PhD in 1963 at Iowa State U and taught
at Cornell in 1965 as a visiting lecturer. He
also served as a soil technologist at Cornell
from 1956 to 1959.
Five Cornell scientists were among 90
in the United States and Canada named
this month to receive unrestricted grants
for basic research from the Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation. Cornell was tied for first place
with the California Institute of Technology
in the number of recipients this year. Recipients
of the grants were designated
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellows. Cornell
faculty members who will receive the grants
effective in September are Stephen U. Chase,
mathematics; Jack H. Freed and Roald
Hoffmann, chemistry; and N. David Mermin
and John W. Wilkins, physics. The
grants are for fundamental research in
chemistry, mathematics, physics and other
fields such as geophysics and astrophysics.
Miss Ethel Zoe Bailey, cataloguist of the
Bailey Hortorium at the university, has been
awarded the George Robert White Medal of
Honor of the Massachusetts Horticultural
Society. The White Medal, one of the highest
horticultural awards in the US, is given
annually to the individual or group, here or
abroad, whom the Society judges to have
done the most to advance interest in horticulture.
Miss Bailey is the daughter of Liberty
Hyde Bailey.
F. Dana Payne, assistant dean of the College
of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed
new associate dean. A Princeton graduate,
he was assistant director of student aid at
Princeton before coming to Cornell.
George M. Ellis, dean of men at Carnegie
Institute of Technology, and Cynthia A. Secor,
MA '63, teaching assistant in the department
of English, have been appointed new
assistant deans of the College.
John V. Stone '42 is the new director of
the university's midwest regional office in
Chicago. He will assist alumni groups in
fund raising, secondary school work, other
alumni activities and public relations. Stone
joins the Cornell staff after 16 years in the
drug sales department of Smith, Kline and
French Laboratories.
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